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Voluntary dismissal is termination of a lawsuit by voluntary request of the plaintiff (the party who originally filed the lawsuit). A voluntary dismissal with prejudice (meaning the plaintiff is permanently barred from further litigating the same subject matter) is the modern descendant of the common law procedure known as retraxit.
Within legal civil procedure, prejudice is a loss or injury, and refers specifically to a formal determination against a claimed legal right or cause of action. [4] Thus, in a civil case, dismissal without prejudice is a dismissal that allows for re-filing of the case in the future.
When defendants want to remove, they ordinarily must do so within 30 days of receiving the complaint, "through service or otherwise", under 28 U.S.C. § 1446(b). An exception applies if diversity jurisdiction, and thus removal jurisdiction, is lacking at the time of the initial pleading in state court, but becomes available within a year after ...
A less severe form of involuntary termination is often referred to as a layoff (also redundancy or being made redundant in British English). A layoff is usually not strictly related to personal performance but instead due to economic cycles or the company's need to restructure itself, the firm itself going out of business, or a change in the function of the employer (for example, a certain ...
The New Jersey Civil Service Commission is an independent body within the New Jersey state government under the auspices of the department. Initially constituted in the late-1940s, pursuant to P.L. 1948, c.446, as the Department of Labor and Industry, the department is one of 16 executive branch departments in New Jersey state government.
Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday filed a motion to dismiss President-elect Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 criminal indictment for allegedly defrauding the United States, conspiring to obstruct ...
In the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the term does not appear, but a dismissal under Rules 12 and 41 has a similar effect. Often, the term "nonsuit" will appear in older U.S. cases. The meaning of the term in most of these older cases is the same as described for the United Kingdom (see below).
Penalty type. First offense. Subsequent offenses. Fines. $300 to $1,000. Up to $5,000. License suspension. Up to one year. Two years. NJ MVC surcharge. $100 for license reinstatement